What a shocker of a weekend I had last time out at The Bend. We battled with a revolving door of technical issues in our four days at…
I came to the UK two years ago as an Australian champion and with the best wishes of some of our greatest riders; Troy Bayliss, Jason Crump,…
It’s been a torrid time for sports scandals. Thanks to the Australian cricket team and the merciless revelations of long-lens TV cameras. You’ll all know the details: heck,…
Not many people amass 36 years’ involvement in racing –12 years as a rider, winning three Australian Grands Prix at Bathurst, and 24 working for premier-class GP teams,…
We were on our way to Bathurst, NSW, when we stopped for a feed at Pie in the Sky at Bilpin, on Bell’s Line of Road in the…
As I battled my way to Sydney airport, Joni Mitchell’s Big Yellow Taxi cooed plaintively out of the hire car’s sound system. Seventies longhairs remember these words: “Don’t it always…
Stepping off a Fat Bob following my ride with Dobie for last issue’s Harley feature and climbing back onto my Cube Racing Kawasaki ZX-6R racebike was a…
Rodger Freeth was a multiple New Zealand champion who could win on anything. Born in Picton, a town on New Zealand’s South Island, on Christmas Eve in 1953,…
The three-time world champion, and only person to win both a WSBK and MotoGP race in the same season, didn’t just slip back into the sport. He chose the…
The first question everyone is asking is if this bike feels anything like the Ninjas I raced previously overseas. It is practically the same machine, so I expected…
Call it what you like; editorialising, romancing, journalling, fictionalising or just outright bullshitting! Hell knows, they’re easy to love. But today’s ride to work, dear reader, there was…
My path into road racing is probably a little different to most. As a kid I raced dirt track on the small bikes – it was kind of…
